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Further proof of the importance of clinical services to hospital pharmacist care comes in research from the University of Illinois that found that clinical services remain essentially the same no matter how big a hospital is, even when there are differences based on hospital size on a number of workload and productivity measures.
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The Pharmacist Services Technical Advisory Coalition (PSTAC) has obtained approval for permanent CPT codes for billing pharmacists' medication therapy management (MTM) services.
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InfoLogix CEO David Guilan says FDA should be involved in encouraging hospitals to adopt barcode and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions to help prevent medication mix-ups such as occurred with actor Dennis Quaid's children at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.
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When pharmacists run diabetes management programs for HMO patients, the patients have better health outcomes than patients who are only monitored for long-term blood sugar control. That's the takeaway from a nine-month study that evaluated the effect of such pharmacist-run diabetes management programs.
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Research conducted at the Detroit Medical Center found that Cubist Pharmaceuticals' daptomycin for injection (Cubicin®) outperformed vancomycin in resolving the signs and symptoms of complicated skin and skin structure infections.
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These next two issues of Emergency Medicine Reports will cover many of the complications and problems that may cause the pregnant woman to come see you. Part I will focus on miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, gestational trophoblastic disease, and venous thromboembolic states. Part II will discuss hypertensive disorders, amniotic fluid embolism, and late pregnancy bleeding.
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Hospital inpatients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are isolated from other patients to reduce the risk of colonizing other patients or visitors, but how does an outpatient surgery program isolate a patient when there often is a shortage of space and a need to move many patients through a single area in a short time?
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Recent federal and state cases involving accusations of fraud against outpatient surgery providers have gotten the attention of managers who wonder, could my program fall under similar scrutiny?
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